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US-7787211

Back electromotive force (BEMF) calibration method, method of controlling unloading of disk drive apparatus using BEMF calibration method, and disk drive apparatus using the same

PublishedAugust 31, 2010
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Technical Abstract

A method of calibrating a parameter to measure the back electromotive force (BEMF) of a voice coil motor (VCM), and a method and apparatus to use the calibrating method to perform unloading control. The calibration method includes: reading servo data and measuring a BEMF value while seeking two predetermined points on a disk, and storing the servo data and the BEMF value, generating an actual velocity curve of a head using the stored servo data, and an estimated velocity curve of the head using the stored BEMF value and adjusting a parameter related to a BEMF measurement to align the actual velocity curve of the head with the estimated velocity curve of the head.

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1. A method of calibrating a BEMF (back electromotive force), the method comprising: reading servo data and measuring a BEMF value while seeking two predetermined points on a disk, and storing the servo data and the BEMF value; generating an actual velocity curve of a head using the stored servo data, and an estimated velocity curve of the head using the stored BEMF value; and adjusting a parameter related to a BEMF measurement to align the actual velocity curve of the head with the estimated velocity curve of the head.

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2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating of the actual velocity curve of the head uses a servo signal as a sampling interval to divide an obtained seek distance into seek time intervals, and is generated from calculated actual velocity values of the head.

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3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the estimated velocity of the head is generated from an estimated velocity value of the head calculated by dividing a BEMF value measured in a VCM (voice coil motor) over a sampling interval by a BEMF constant to derive an estimated angular velocity value, and multiplying the estimated angular velocity value by a transforming proportional constant.

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4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the parameter corresponds to a changing rate of a coil resistance value of a voice coil motor, and is varied to align the actual velocity curve of the head with the estimated velocity curve of the head.

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5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adjusting of the parameter includes calculating a ratio of the actual velocity curve of the head to the estimated velocity curve of the head, and adjusting a parameter related to the BEMF measurement to make the ratio approach 1 .

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6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the ratio of the actual velocity curve of the head to the estimated velocity curve of the head is calculated as a ratio of a first harmonic sine coefficient of the actual velocity of the head to a first harmonic sine coefficient of the estimated velocity of the head.

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7. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a computer program code to perform a method of calibrating a back electromotive force (BEMF), the method comprising: seeking two predetermined points on a disk to read servo data and measure a BEMF value, and store the servo data and the BEMF value; generating an actual velocity curve of a head using the stored servo data and an estimated velocity curve of the head using the stored BEMF value; and adjusting a parameter related to a BEMF measurement to align the actual velocity curve of the head with the estimated velocity curve of the head.

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August 1, 2007

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August 31, 2010

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